Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15

minion! What m%yrmidons Of adj
mirers! What u%nending round Of glo-
rie-' All the towers chimed the
princes praises. OF all the inhabi-
tants, from the center of the city, on
over the hills and clear down TO the
beach against which the ocean OF i'm
mensity rolls its pillows the prince
was the acknowledged favorite. No
wonder my text says that ''He was
rich Set all the diamonds Of the
earth in one sceptre, build all the
places Of the earth in one Alhamb"a,
gather all the pearls of the sea in one
diadem, put all the values Of the earth
in one coin, the aggregate would not
express his afiuence. Yes. Paul was
right. solomon had in gold six hun
dred and eighty million pounds, and in
silver one billion twenty-nine million
three hundred and seventy-seven
po1nds sterling.
BUT A CREATES THAN SOLOMON is HERE
Not the millionaire, but the quadril-
~lionaire OF heaven. Te descr. be his
celestial surroundings the Bible uses
all %colors, gathering them in rainbow
over the throne and setting them as
agate In the temple window, and hoist
ing twelve of them into . wall from
striped jasper at the base to trans
parent amethyst in the capstone, while
between are green Of emerald, and
now of pearl, and blue OF
a-vl.a and sa11nm ~ fnNau
gray of c~brysoprasus, and flame
OF Jacinth. All the loneliness of land
scape in foliage, and river, and rill.
and all enchantment aquamarine, the
sea of glass mingled with fire as when
the sun sinks In the Me t~iterranean.
All the thrill of music, instrumental
and vocal, harps, trunpets, doxologies-
There stood the prince, surrounded by
those who had under their wings the
velocity of millions of miles IN a second,
rich in love, rich in alteration, rich in
power, rich in worship, rich in holt
ness, rich As God.
But n day there was a big disaster
in a department Of Gods universe.
A RACE FALLEN!
A world in ruins! Our planet the scene
OF catastrophe! A globe swinging out
into darkness, with mountains, and
seas, and islands, an awful centrifugal
of sin seeming to overpower the beau
tiful centrIpetal of righteousness, and
from it Il groan reached heaven. Such
a sound had never been heard there.
Plenty OF sweet sounds, but never an
cutlery of distress. or an echo of agony.
At that one 2roan the prince rose from
all the blissful CIRCUMFERENCE, and
started for the outer gate, and
descended into the night of this world.
Out of what "A bright harbor into what
a rough sea! "Stay with u.s." cried
angel after angel, and ~potentate after
potentate. NO" said the prince; Il
cannot stay; 1 must be off for that
wreck of a world. | must stop that
groan. | must hush that distress. l
must fathom that way. l must redeem
those nations. Farewell thrones and
temples, companions cherubic, SER
aphic, archangelic! Excuse this absence,
for / will come back again, carrying
on my shoulder
A RANSoMED ORR
Till this is done l choose earthly scot
to heavenly reclamation, and a cattle
pen to a kings palace, frigid zone of
earth to atmosphere of celestial radi-
ance. 1 have no time to lose, for bark
We to the groan that grows mightier
while | wait. Farewell! FAREWELL
''Ye know the grace Of u Lord Jesus
Christ, that. though He was rich, yet
for your sakes He became poor"
Was there ever a contrast so over
towering as that between the MONDAY
of Christ's celestial departure and the
midnight of his earthly arrival? Sure
enough, the angels were out that night
in the sky, and an especial meteor act
ed rs escort. but all that was from
other worlds, and not from this world.
The earth made no demonstration of
welcome. If one Of the great princes
of this world steps out at a depot cheers
resound, and the bands play, and the
flags wave. But for the arrival of this
missionary Prince of the skies not a
torch flared. MOI q trumpet blew, not a
plume huttered. All the music and the
pomp were overhead. Our world
for Him nothing better than a barn
door. The rajah of Cashmere sent to
Victoria a bedstead of carved gold and
a canopy that cost sever hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, but the world
had for the Prince of heaven and earth
ONLY A LITE OF STRAW.
The crown jewels liz the Tower Of Lon
don amount to fifteen million dollars,
but this member IF eternal royalty had
nowhere to lay His head. To know
how poor He was, ask the camel drjv-
ers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary. ask
the three wise men of the East who af-
came there, young Caspar and
middle-aged Balhasar and old Melchio.
To know now poor He was examine all
the records of real estate in all that
Oriental country, and see what vine
ward, or what house, or what field He
Not one. OF what mortgage
was he the mortgageep OF what ten
was He the landlord? OF what
was He the lesseep Who ever
paid Him rentp Not owning the boat
which He sailed. or the beast On
which He rode. or the pillow on which